Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-18
TIE RAILWAY RECORD.
The Montana Union and the Utah 4
Northern Having More Trouble From
High Water-The Denver & Rio
Grande to be Made Standard Cage
Other Railroad News.
MONTANA UNION wAeHoUT.

MONTANA MOI
Yesterday morning early the high water
in Lost creek washed through the bank o.
the Montana Union Railway there and
made twelve-foot opening three miles
north OF Warm Springs. The Butte Office
was communicated with at once and Super
intendent Dawson Immediately got out a
work train loaded with the necessary ap-
| planes, and reached the spot where the
break was at 1890. He put dow two
stringers to let the train over and then
filed up the washout with rocks and took
the s~triDgers out. The place is now the
most substantial on the line of the road.
Mr.. Dawson reports the water again high
all along that part of the track of the Mon
tana Union, and did not think there was
the least indication OF a fall, though it is
continues fair, being solely the outcom OF
the recent heavy rains. Several places he
observed the Deer Lodge level with the
stringers. Old-timers say that the water
is higher now han they have ever noticed
it before at this time OF year. Altogether
this has been an unprecedented year for
high water along the line OF the Montana
Union.
TIE BIG HOLE THREATENED.
A gentleman up from the Big Hole Basin
last evening stated that that river is very
high. The railroad people were not sure
that the train that left Butte last evening
would get through. The river rose four
inches yesterday and ia within a few inches
of being as high as a few weeks ago. Then
it was on account of melting snow, but
THE has nearly all run off. There is no
danger to the bridge at that point that
vas then in such imminent peril unless
more rain should fall. There are about
200 1000 feet OF logs banked at Dewey's
fat, ten miles from Divide and if the water
gets up to them and floats them off not a
bridge can be saved. Some OF the logs were
aoated off in the last high water and occa.
great trouble. tcredit was given
Road Supervise r Dunn of Silver Bow Coun-
ty fordiligenely watching the bridges at the
Upper Canyon and Melrose. The County
Commissioners OF Silver Bow COUNTY de-
serve credit. too, for the activity thew have
displayed in keeping open these means of
communication, having given instructions
spare no expense and omit no precau-
ton to save the bridges. The prospects
are, in the view of The MINERS information,
that the water will fall. as the snow in that
region is pretty we'll off the mountains.
BROAD g RIO GRANDE.
Chicago Special: The Times prints the fol
this morning: MIR. David H. Moffat,
President of the Denver & Rio Grande Rail-
way, accompanied by his general manager,
S. T. Smith, was at the Grand Pacific |
hotel yesterday. They attended a meeting
Of the directors in New York last week.
President Moffat states hat the funds
have been provided for changing the gauge
Of the road and getting substantially new
stock in place of that now in service. |
The broad gauge will be adopted upon
include the laying of a third rail from Pu.
.blo to Trinidad, 100 miles, to provide
Jrackage for the Denver & New Orleans rail-
road, a contract covering such provisions, |
been concluded before President |
Moffat left Denver. A third rail will be laid |
rom Malta, five miles below Leadville. to
ilenwood Springs and Aspen, which are
points OF large commercial promise. From
Aspen TO Grand Junction, in Western Colo
ado, the point OF intersection with the
q Rio Grande Western, a separate
a broad gauge will he built.
The preparations contemplate the COM
of the wide gauge to Aspen and
GlenSood by the middle OF next Novem-
DuIAuS Nv p1SC tcu udJS UDt COIl. |
,any has purchased Of different mills 3d.
)OOt tons OF steel rails and twenty-seven
Baldwin locomotives. and thespeciications
re NV being prepared for new coaches.
The new equipment will be ready for the
Dad by the first OF next year. The change
INVOLVES an outlay of nearly six millions
nd is undertaken upon the recommends
OF President Moffat, who is regarded
IS a broad -guage man.
THE MANIToBA's WESTERN OUTLET.
Portland News Ceur d'Alene correpon-
ence: During my recent visit to thess
hines l met Mr.. A. B. Rogers, of Mime
ota, and spent two evenings with him, one
t Murray and another at Wardner. This
entleman is a railroad builder of note in
is own State, who has been entrusted
18th important enterprises by the mana
ers OF the great railways OF the West. He
the Canadian Pacific through the
through the Selkirks and Gold
ange, and is now engaged, as he told me,
J studying the geography of the Bit ter
.Oot range. He came up f., nm Missoula
18th his two nephews and lacking outfit,
long the Mullan road as far as the Crows
est, and finding the snow too deep to
ross with his horses returned and came
ito Murray by way Of Thompson's Falls.
nd went to Mullan and crossed the range
n foot to the place where he let off on the
Their side and returned and came down the
outh Fork to Wardner, and SO on to the
[ission and into the open country. He will
over the ground again when the snow is '
lelted away, and during the summer will
Judy the geography of the ST. Joseph and
edar rivers. He did not tell anybody j,
hat railroad he is selecting a pass /
trough that mountain for. or what COM {
any has engaged him to find out what in
this South Fork country offers
, 2 railroad, but it is cot very doubtful.
think, that he is employed by the Mani
'ba line. which is rapidly pushing across {
orthern Dakota and Montana. |.
ERR IN MEXICO.
New York Special: What has been the
of the American railway invasion +
Mexico? In 1880 there was not a mile
American railway in Mexico and the
hole railway mileage OF the county did I
exceed 500 miles, the greater part OF
hich was the English road from Vera r
'uS to the City OF Mexico. To-day there c
200 miles OF American railway in 9
distributed as follows: |
axican Central Railway 1854 .
National Railroad. 662 !!
ternational (Huntington's) ........ 2l0
lall los /
los u
EXCURSIONS. =
SAN FRANCISCO, June 16.-The first of the v
called emigrant excursion parties left for II
e East last night. Parties Of thirty arc y